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  • "Mammi," said I, waking from a deep reverie as I sat beside our bright wood-fire (for we have had two days of dashing rain, and fires have not been at all disagreeable), "did grandpapa ever return to New Hampshire after he left it in 1821?"

    The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

  • "Come over whenever you like," Mammi always said, coaxing the three of them to spend the night on the Byler dairy farm, where they'd fall asleep to Dawdi's rhythmic serenade.

    Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

  • Your house with Mammi when Lizzie and Mamma and their siblings were growin 'up in Hickory Hollow, and later the log cabin.

    Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

  • Thinking back to Leah, Gid was more than certain that Dawdi and Mammi would wholeheartedly approve of her, though he hadn't breathed a word of his affection to a soul, except to Adah, though ever so subtly, asking her to be a messenger girl just that once.

    Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

  • About this time likewise I was informed, that the _Mammi_, or captain of the gallies, and others, had come from the governor of Mokha to our general, to treat of peace, and to enquire what sum he demanded in satisfaction of our damages.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

  • It is official, Al Jolson's much anticipated album "Mammi Rocks" is slated to blow Spark Plug and bandmates straight to the bottom of the charts.

    Drudge Retort 2008

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